Let's see your pics of your C3 with TPI
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Burning Brakes
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Let's see your pics of your C3 with TPI
I'm going through the TPI swap, and want to see some pics of the end result. Can you post some pics of C3's with TPI installed?
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Safety Car
#7
Instructor
Just got the motor in on sunday and am working my fingers to the bone to get it running cause i cant wait any longer to know how its going to run. So more to come on it shortly. I put in the pro flo xt system by Edelbrock.
#8
Drifting
Model:
1981 C3 Corvette.
Engine:
Chevy Small Block 350 Stroked .030 over
Engine Displacement CI:
383CI (6.3 Liters)
Kit:
Eagle Balanced 383 Stroker
http://www.eaglerod.com/
Intake system:
Tuned Port Injection (FI TPI)
Mass Airflow Senor:
Bosch
ECM / Engine Computer:
BWD ECM ECC 7165
Painless Performace Wire Harness
http://www.painlessperformance.com
http://www.bwdbrand.com
Alternator / Electrical:
Heavy Duty 200 AMP High Output
Cam Shaft:
Comp Cam 268H http://www.compcams.com/
Cooling System:
Griffin Racing Radiator http://www.griffinrad.com/
Cold air intake filter is located in the front air damn and has a flexible hose, so the hose collapses when the hood is opened.
Pulled about 95K miles
Stroked to 383
Engine Build and tune was done by www.baldturbofreak.com
1981 C3 Corvette.
Engine:
Chevy Small Block 350 Stroked .030 over
Engine Displacement CI:
383CI (6.3 Liters)
Kit:
Eagle Balanced 383 Stroker
http://www.eaglerod.com/
Intake system:
Tuned Port Injection (FI TPI)
Mass Airflow Senor:
Bosch
ECM / Engine Computer:
BWD ECM ECC 7165
Painless Performace Wire Harness
http://www.painlessperformance.com
http://www.bwdbrand.com
Alternator / Electrical:
Heavy Duty 200 AMP High Output
Cam Shaft:
Comp Cam 268H http://www.compcams.com/
Cooling System:
Griffin Racing Radiator http://www.griffinrad.com/
Cold air intake filter is located in the front air damn and has a flexible hose, so the hose collapses when the hood is opened.
Pulled about 95K miles
Stroked to 383
Engine Build and tune was done by www.baldturbofreak.com
#10
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
I'm sort of curious as to why this is not more of a popular swap? Is it the electronics involved that scare off most people? If I recall the power correctly that my 89 had, it was LOADS faster than my 80, and that's just with the L98 motor in it. Seems like a good way to get more HP in a stock-style setup. I'm a little apprehensive about the wiring, but really it doesn't seem all THAT complicated, as long as you educate yourself and call upon those that have done the swap before. Just curious I suppose.
#11
Team Owner
'Lectronics and wiring scares hell outta guys, soldering is a technique learned from practice only, being a olde tyme ET from the vacuum tube daze yet, make it easy for me, and I saved several hundred bux on my install by doing junkyard harness modifications, instead of painful to the pocketbook commercial harnesses.....which will need be assembled or modified for your computer location anyway....
#13
In my case, it was dealing with the unknown. Once I got the manual and started researching the system, it not that big of a deal. The wife wants me to finish restoring her car before I spend more money on the vette. So, it is future work someday.
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For a cheap, economical, good fuel economy, easy idle, starts, etc...they are awesome.
I had a Street & Performance TPI setup, modified runners, bigger injectors, etc......but I scored a Procharger super cheap.....and the cap 5500 rpm (weak flow over that) made me sell it and revert to a blow-thru Demon carb. to keep up with a procharger/nos setup.
#18
Drifting
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TPI shootout in Feb 2005 Super Rod magazine
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Super Rod did a decent TPI shootout in their Feb. issue. It has:
Stock TPI (410hp, 500lb-ft)
Edelbrock High-Flo (431hp, 501lb-ft)
Extrude Hone base & LTR (451hp, 534lb-ft)
TPIS Big Mouth System (460hp, 534lb-ft)
ASM Siamesed Runners (464hp, 510lb-ft)
SLP T-Ram (466hp, 495lb-ft)
Accel SR (480hp, 506lb-ft)
Holley single plane (493hp, 480lb-ft)
HSR (501hp, 493lb-ft)
MR (505hp, 471lb-ft)
This is MUCH better then the stock power of many C3 Vettes... I love my TPI setup!
Still not enough HP add a Turbo to the TPI setup...
http://www.gmhightechperformance.com...est/index.html
TPI shootout in Feb 2005 Super Rod magazine
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Super Rod did a decent TPI shootout in their Feb. issue. It has:
Stock TPI (410hp, 500lb-ft)
Edelbrock High-Flo (431hp, 501lb-ft)
Extrude Hone base & LTR (451hp, 534lb-ft)
TPIS Big Mouth System (460hp, 534lb-ft)
ASM Siamesed Runners (464hp, 510lb-ft)
SLP T-Ram (466hp, 495lb-ft)
Accel SR (480hp, 506lb-ft)
Holley single plane (493hp, 480lb-ft)
HSR (501hp, 493lb-ft)
MR (505hp, 471lb-ft)
This is MUCH better then the stock power of many C3 Vettes... I love my TPI setup!
Still not enough HP add a Turbo to the TPI setup...
http://www.gmhightechperformance.com...est/index.html
Last edited by Vampyre; 01-15-2010 at 10:22 AM.
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Team Owner
Yes, but at what co$t???
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